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title: "Customizing Columns in the Materials Table"
url: "https://help.ontraccr.com/en/article/customizing-columns-in-the-materials-table"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-06-08T18:11:57.744Z"
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# Customizing Columns in the Materials Table

## **🧮 Customizing Columns in the Materials Table**  
 

## **Overview**

Ontraccr gives you full control over what data appears in your materials table. With the **Columns configuration tool**, you can show or hide fields to match your workflow — whether you're focused on cost tracking, quoting, or inventory.

This article explains how to customize the columns visible in your Materials Page view.

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## **🛠 How to Access the Columns Tool**

1.  Navigate to the **Materials Page**.
2.  In the top-right corner, click the **“Columns”** button (gear or dropdown icon).

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## ✅ **Available Columns You Can Toggle**

You can turn each of the following columns **on or off**:

### **📄 Basic Info**

-   **ID** – Internal system ID
-   **Description** – Item summary
-   **Part Number** – Your unique product code
-   **Supplier** – Vendor or manufacturer

### **💰 Cost & Pricing**

-   **Material Cost**
-   **Material Markup**
-   **Material Price**
-   **Labor Cost**
-   **Labor Markup**
-   **Labor Price**

### **📦 Inventory Tracking**

-   **Quantity**
-   **Quantity Allocated**
-   **Quantity Available**
-   **Threshold**
-   **Locations**

### **📏 Units & Codes**

-   **Unit Type**
-   **Cost Code**

📌 *Tip:* You can hide unused fields to streamline your view for estimating, procurement, or job costing.

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## **🧠 Real Use Cases**

-   **Estimating team:** Hide internal cost data, show only prices and descriptions.
-   **Procurement team:** Show suppliers, costs, quantities, and thresholds.
-   **Operations manager:** Include labor pricing, quantity available, and cost codes.

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## **📝 Column Settings Are Per-User**

Changes you make to your column view are specific to your login:

-   Other users in your account will have **their own settings**.
-   Great for teams that need different views of the same data.